Amazon is expanding the number of its branches for research and development in Germany. In Dresden, 120 employees will initially promote the company’s cloud service.
The online mail order company Amazon has opened a new research and development center in Dresden.
IT experts are supposed to work on the company’s cloud service, Amazon Web Services. Saxony’s Prime Minister Michael Kretschmer (CDU) cut a tape in front of the building’s entrance on Wednesday, together with US Consul General Ken Toko and Chris Schlaeger, Managing Director of Amazon Development Center Germany GmbH.
Amazon currently employs 120 people from more than a dozen countries. In perspective, it should be 340. An investment amount was not mentioned. Amazon is a tenant in the building. To attract new people, the group works with the Technical University of Dresden and finances ten scholarships for computer science students.
Kretschmer attested that the IT industry was developing rapidly. “We know that digitization and software will be the dominant topic in the future.” The US Consul General Ken Toko, responsible for Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt and Thuringia, described Amazon’s involvement in Dresden as proof that “the USA and Germany can achieve great things together”.
The Dresden location is one of four Amazon research and development centers in Germany. Further centers are in Aachen (focus: language services), Berlin (machine learning) and Tübingen (computer vision, causality). The teams each cooperate with local research institutions and universities.
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